Highfield Level 2 Award in Healthy Food and Special Diets (RQF)

24th April

This qualification will benefit anyone who prepares and serves food as it is designed to provide a basic understanding of nutrition and the requirements of special diets to enable the planning of well-balanced meals that have a positive impact on health. This could include chefs, kitchen porters, waiting staff, health care workers and childminders.

Overview and Benefits

This nutritional course includes the nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet including covering the impact of diet on health. It is perfect for those learners wanting to understand more about special diets for different cultures; health issues and food preparation techniques for those on special diets including those with allergies and other intolerances.

Course Content

This course will cover:

A healthy diet including The Eatwell Guide;

Essential nutrients;

Impact of diet on health;

Food preparation techniques to help maintain the nutritional value of food;

Main feature of special diets.

Course Objectives

This qualification will enable successful candidates to:

Understand the principle of healthy diets;

Plan and provide special diets including food preparation techniques;

Understand special diets through life stages.

Further Information

Awarding Body: Highfield Qualification

Course Duration: 6 hours guided learning

Assessment: The examination for this qualification contains 20 questions that must be completed within 30 minutes. 14 out of 20 correct answers is the pass mark.